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Black Start, Chapter Twelve: The Mighty MS5002 Gas Turbine

Published on November 25, 2011 By dlucier

  The two-shaft gas turbine was first introduced in the 1950s.  They showed some popularity in gas pipelines and chemical process plants in the 1960s, where variable-speed load compressors (made by manufacturers other than GE) were required.  These load compressors were designed to operate at speeds different than the gas turbine’s own axial-flow compressor.   [...]

Black Start, Chapter 8: Compressor Drives for the Industrial and Gas Pipeline Industry

Published on July 2, 2011 By dlucier

  In the 1950s, General Electric designed, constructed and installed hundreds of 2-shaft gas turbines.  The units had two, mechanically-independent turbine stages.  The high-pressure (HP) turbine powered the turbine’s own 15-stage, axial-flow compressor.  The low-pressure (LP) turbine drove another manufacturer’s load compressor (Cooper-Bessemer, Nouvo Pignone, Dresser).  These turbines were used primarily in the gas pipeline [...]

Black Start, Chapter 6: Rutland on the Leading Edge

Published on May 13, 2011 By dlucier

Rutland, Vermont is probably not a place one would expect to be in the forefront in new technology in power generation, unless perhaps it was in mountain stream hydropower.  Even less likely is this town’s involvement with one of the first land-based gas turbines to drive an electric generator.  But that is just what happened [...]